[SOLVED] major CD errors when installing 7.0 (only 7.0)!

Joachim Rosenfeld joerosenfeld at gmail.com
Sun May 18 03:50:43 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld <joerosenfeld at gmail.com>
> But when I installed via the 7.0 disk 1, I received CD errors when I
> got to the point where it started copying the base distribution off
> the disk.
>
> When I booted off the same CD again, I saw something similar to the following:
>
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=... ascq=...

I was able to plug in an external CD drive and boot off of and install
via that. But it is odd that FreeBSD 7 would have problems with this
CD drive that 6.{3,2,1}  and Windows (dual-booting) doesn't.


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